Quarter-Finals

Next round (Quarter-Finals) will be:

HOME vs AWAY

BRAP2 vs the shagging lizards
Bluthenthal da 3 vs The Ginger Beards

Plus, there is a play-off for 7th and 8th:

More Fire! vs Mababies


Byes for The Units and Green Loraxes
Make sure you use CUP RULES.

*** See link on the side for the structure of the Nuclear Cup Finals!

Elimination Finals

Next Round of the Nuclear Cup will be:

Mababies vs Ginger Beards
More Fire! vs the shagging lizards

the battle for 9th and 10th between:

Gaeta FC vs Sugar Kick


It is a bye for Green Loraxes, The Units, Bluthenthal da 3, BRAP2 and darkness12 (and wooden spoon winner).

Hurraah!!! Mababies Ko Witbard finally was sold for approx. 8.3 million dollars!!! Hopefully this means i can get a decent midfield now!!!..but its going to be hard to find a replacement for him!...

And hopefully in the time i am away my account wont be too badly abused by the nuclear cup council!!!...xox

BUD vs FIPS: Legends face off

Two of the greatest ever Nuclear Cup players came face to face when The Units' Charlie "Bud" Tingwell and Green Loraxes' Fips Hanus (both pictured) lined up on opposite sides in Round 3 of the Nuclear Cup. In the first half, Fips made a great save to deny Bud, but in the second half Bud responded- soaring to head the ball past Fips for his 3rd goal in as many games. So, honours were even on the day between the two superstars, however Fips had the last laugh with the Loraxes, thanks in part to a spectacular 7-star performance by uber-midfielder Patrik Egggard (no typo- 3 g's!!), winning the match easily in the end 6-1 and going to the top of the table. Bluthenthal despite being hot favourites against Mababies, just managed to win 3-2, but still kept their chances of a top 2 finish alive. The other group A match saw BRAP2, bolstered by the return of a couple of stars from injury, defeat More Fire! 4-1.
Group B has become a three horse race for the 2 playoff spots, with Gaeta FC, The Ginger Beards and the shagging lizards all winning. Gaeta won their "bye" in a goal fest: 6-3. shagging beat darkness12 5-1, and The Ginger Beards continued their perfect start beating Sugar Kick 6-1.

Fips Hanus supporters show their support!

Fips Hanus supporters have come out in force to demonstrate their support of the aging Green Loraxes keeper. Rumours of an imminent sacking of Hanus have been growing in light of his recent bad form, and question marks over whether the Loraxes can still maintain such a lowly skilled player in their side. Lorax management however will clearly have a battle on their hands if they are to oust the keeper, especially if Fips' supporters have anything to do with it. Even celebrities are getting involved, including the beautiful "Faith Tones" trio who have named their upcoming album "Fips Use Me" (see picture) after the veteran keeper.

New Coach, New Approach

Gaeta FC has made the bold move of enlisting Todor Mingolov as the new team coach and sending Stefan Dryskog into a well deserved early retirement. Stefan helped immensely in establishing the team as a force to be reckoned with and GFC fans can only hope this standard of trainer can be matched and surpassed by Todor. Todor who is Bulgarian but of Austrian decent was quoted as saying "I will terminate all those who stand in the way of GFC... and I'll be back". The media had difficulty in understanding the relevance of Todor's last comment "I'll be back" and put it down to recording malfunctions.

Bud Strikes Again

Charlie "Bud" Tingwell has helped The Units defeat More Fire! and go to the top of the Nuclear Cup standings after 2 rounds. Bud has now scored in both rounds this season, and exhaustive research has shown he has now scored a total of 17 goals in his stupendous Nuclear Cup career.
In other group A matches, Green Loraxes continued their good form with a 4-0 win over mababies, and Bluthenthal da 3 had their first win for the season, 5-2 over BRAP2.
Gaeta FC are top of Group B after beating darkness12 4-2. In the battle of the newest Nuclear Cup teams, the Ginger Beards prevailed 1-0 over the shagging lizards in a contest as tight as Tom's underpants. The shock result was Sugar Kick's loss in their "bye", ensuring that they are now bottom of Group B.

Election of first black US president overshadowed by the opening round of the Nuclear Cup

Season 4 has begun!! A big welcome to the 2 new teams, The Ginger Beards and the shagging lizards. Both have already had an impact on the competition, with Ginger Beards beating darkness 2-0, and the lizards winning their "bye" 3-1. Also impressing in Group B were Gaeta FC, 5-1 victors over Sugar Kick.
In Group A, the replay of last season's final again saw Green Loraxes victorious over Bluthenthal da 3, the score was 3-1. In other Group A matches, The Units beat BRAP2 4-1, and More Fire! beat Mababies 3-1.


Photo: President Elect Barack Obama considering whether to play Counter Attack in his next league match.

Nuclear Cup IV

The number of teams now playing for the Nuclear cup has risen to 11, which means the simple round robin system had to be altered. Soon there will be a link to the new draw, which should be self explanatory but put simply the teams who finished in the top 6 positions will be in Pool A and the bottom 3 teams with the 2 new teams will be in a separate Pool B. Each team will play the other teams within there Pool once, then will be ranked to go on to the Final series. The final series includes all 6 teams from Pool A and the top 2 teams of Pool B, with the following match ups:
Round one:
> Top 4 of Pool A has the week off.
> Elimination 1: Pool A 5th plays Pool B 2nd
> Elimination 2: Pool A 6th plays Pool B 1st
Round two:
> Top 2 of Pool A has the week off.
> Quarter final 1: Pool A 3rd plays winner of Elimination 2
> Quarter final 2: Pool A 4th plays winner of Elimination 1
Round three:
> Semi final 1: Pool A 1st plays winner of Quarter final 2
> Semi final 1: Pool A 2nd plays winner of Quarter final 1
Round four:
> Grand Final: Winners of semi finals 1 and 2 play each other for the Nuclear Cup!

At each stage the losing team will play the other losing team for final overall ranking, with will be used for the next Nuclear Cup draw. For example, Elimination round 1: If Pool B 2nd team wins over Pool A 5th team, the Pool A 5th team will have to play for either 7th or 8th place overall. Pool B 2nd team could either go all the way to the finals or if they lose in the quarter finals they will finish either 5th or 6th. Either way they will have an advantage for next season being in Pool A.

Nuclear Cup - Season 4 - Registrations OPEN

Registration for the next Nuclear Cup (Season 4) have been opened. Invitations have been sent out via email to teams we hope will join this season. If you think you should have received an email but haven't it will mean I probably stuffed up your email address, therefore contact me or leave a reply to this post on the site.

Cheers,
Nuclear Cup management


CONFIRMED SEASON 4 PARTICIPANTS:

1. More Fire!
2. Bluthenthal da 3
3. Gaeta FC
4. BRAP2
5. The Units
6. Green Loraxes
7. Mababies
8. The Ginger Beards
9. shagging lizards
10. Sugar Kick!
11. darkness12

EDIT: Nuclear Cup Season 4 will begin on the 5th Round of Cup - ie. 5th of November